S’initier à l’éducation ouverte avec un escape game
2025-03-25 18:30 - 19:00 (Europe/Paris) | Chaire Unesco RELIA – Nantes Université France, Halle 6 Ouest - Pole Universitaire interdisciplinaire des cultures numeriques 42 rue de la Tour d'Auvergne, Nantes, France
À l’occasion de la Semaine de l’Éducation Ouverte en décembre dernier à Nantes, nous avons conçu et animé un escape game inédit destiné aux étudiant·es : “L’Odyssée de l’Éducation Ouverte”. Cet événement propose un retour d’expérience sur cette initiative, en mettant en avant la méthodologie de conception, les apprentissages tirés de l’animation et les perspectives d’adaptation pour d’autres contextes pédagogiques.
Le format de la session sera court et dynamique :
_ 15 minutes de présentation sur la création et la mise en œuvre de l’escape game
_15 minutes d’échanges avec le public sur les défis et les opportunités liés à ce type d’outil pédagogique

How Far Have We Come? – The Canadian National Open Education Landscape
2025-03-25 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | University of British Columbia, 2329 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4, Canada
This panel brings together experts across Canada engaged at a national level in open education. Canada’s open education landscape is diverse, dynamic, and uniquely influenced by provincial contexts. This webinar delves into the open education strategies, challenges, and achievements of provinces across the nation. This panel discussion brings together speakers to provide a provincial examination of how open education is shaping post-secondary education in Canada.
This webinar will exam:

Provincial Policy Frameworks – Learn about government initiatives supporting open education in each province.
Regional Innovations in OER – Explore success stories and impactful projects advancing open educational resources and open pedagogy.
Indigenous Engagement – Explore current discussions and thinking on the intersection OE and Indigenous Knowledges.
Barriers and Opportunities – Understand the unique challenges faced by different provinces and how they are being addressed.
Toward a National Framework – Discuss the potential for greater collaboration and integration of efforts across provinces to strengthen open education nationwide.

Panelists

Nicole Askin, University of Manitoba
Catherine Lachaîne, University of Ottawa
Kayla Lar-son, Xwi7Xwa Library, UBC
Alexandra Marcaccio, AtlanticOER Lead at the Council of Atlantic Academic Libraries

Open Educational Resources (OER) Discovery Minute (In Person)
2025-03-27 10:00 - 11:30 (America/Toronto) | Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
OER Discovery Minute is an opportunity to discover what your student peers at Concordia are doing to help you find and access free textbooks and learning materials.
Only have a minute, no problem. Drop by at any time during our event for a minute, two, or the whole session.
Activities include:

Button making
Trivia
Searching for OERs,
Nominate a course, and more
Free snacks and refreshments.

This event is led by student leaders in the OER movement and supported by Concordia University Library.

Part of Open Education Month at Concordia University Library

Liberating Curricula: Open Education for Decolonised and Internationalised Learning
2025-04-07 11:00 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
In an increasingly interconnected world educational practices and materials should evolve to be more inclusive and representative of diverse voices, perspectives, narratives and epistemologies. Through leveraging open educational resources, open pedagogy, and collaborative approaches to knowledge co-construction we can challenge hegemonic narratives and biases, and create a more socially just and inclusive curriculum. This talk explores open educational practices as a transformative approach for curriculum internationalisation and decolonisation.
Register via Humantix
Presenter: Dr Surita Jhangiani, University of British Columbia

As Interim Associate Dean, Equity, Dr. Surita Jhangiani provides strategic leadership to advance the Faculty’s equity priorities, fostering transformative teaching, innovative learning and leading-edge research guided by the highest scholarship, collaboration, equity and inclusion standards.
Dr. Jhangiani is the David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education, providing support to increase interest, programming and engagement in multicultural and anti-racist education, and to assist schools to foster critical multiculturalism. She has received two Open Educational Resource Champion awards from the University of British Columbia and was recognized as the Faculty of Education’s 2023 Universal Design for Learning Fellow. She is currently involved in projects related to open pedagogy, alternative grading, and belonging in learning and teaching.

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Open Pedagogy: Paving the Way for Assessment Reform
2025-04-08 10:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Assessment reform has been a prominent topic in higher education for a long time, gaining even more traction with the emergence of Generative AI (GenAI) in learning and teaching. GenAI has pushed assessment from emphasising output to prioritising processes. This shift has prompted the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), Australia’s independent national quality assurance and regulatory agency for higher education, to require higher education institutions to demonstrate how they are securing assessments to mitigate the new challenges. However, despite the growing discussions around assessment security, there has been little attention given to open pedagogy, let alone renewable assessment.
Given the significant value of student-generated OER and renewable assessment observed in both literature and practice, this session aims to provide the audience with practical strategies for developing and implementing authentic assessments.
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Presenters
Dr Julie Lazzara, Maricopa Community Colleges, USA

Dr Julie Lazzara has served as a dedicated psychology educator at Maricopa Community Colleges in the Phoenix area since 2006. Since becoming a strong advocate for Open Educational Resources (OER) in 2015, she has utilized OER in her courses and actively contributed to the development of several OER textbooks and resources. Passionate about student engagement, Dr. Lazzara incorporates active learning, service-learning, and collaborative projects into her teaching. Her research focuses on the impact of open pedagogy, renewable assignments, social annotation, and OER’s impact on teaching approaches. Dr. Lazzara has also actively participated in numerous OER initiatives and projects, including the UNSDG Open Pedagogy Faculty Fellowship and the Open Education Group OER Research Fellowship.
Dr Virginia Clinton-Lisell, Associate Professor, Education, Health & Behavior, University of North Dakota

Dr. Virginia Clinton-Lisell began her career in education as an ESL teacher in New York City. She then obtained her PhD in Educational Psychology with a minor in Cognitive Science at the University of Minnesota where she was trained in educational research. She has published over 60 articles in education research and teaches courses in education research, program evaluation, and psychological foundations of education. Her current research focuses on the psychology of reading comprehension and open education. She is a Rose Isabella Kelly Fischer Endowed Professor.

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The HAN Change Approach
2025-04-09 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Amsterdam) | HAN University of Applied Sciences, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
In this webinar for OEGlobal members, we’ll explain the HAN change approach to digital education. Our 12-year program includes 5 subprojects:

Support
Change Management
Technical Infrastructure
Professionalize, Recognize & Appreciate
Startups

Enjoy our webinar and engage with us about our approach.

Background info

Who is HAN University of Applied Sciences?
We are HAN University of Applied Sciences, an inclusive knowledge institution with 13 schools, 36,000 students and over 80 degree programs, located on the campuses in Arnhem and Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. We offer students a springboard to a future as professional and global citizen in a society that is constantly changing. The region is our campus; our students learn at HAN and beyond. And we conduct practice-based research with, for and at companies and organizations. Together with our partners, students and staff, we are making a difference and broadening our horizons. Together we are working towards a smart, clean and social world of tomorrow!
What are our goals on digital education?
HAN is committed to providing educators and students with easy access to high-quality digital educational resources at realistic costs. We also develop digital learning materials ourselves and share them openly to contribute to the (inter)national supply. With this approach, HAN stimulates, facilitates, and evaluates the realization of this vision. This will be done in 4 phases. Phase 2 started in January 2025.
Learn more about the HAN Change Approach: Recognizing, rewarding and incentivizing working with digital and open educational resources

Open Educational Resources for reward, recognition and academic promotion
2025-04-10 11:00 - 12:15 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Hear directly from the people who have sought and received reward, recognition, and promotion for their work in Open Education. During this panel discussion, find out how they have incorporated open education into their careers and career progression. Learn what works and what doesn’t when it comes to seeking reward and recognition for producing OERs.
Our panel features:

Dr Amanda White OAM, Associate Professor, Accounting Discipline Group, University of Technology Sydney. Amanda is well-known and highly decorated for work in producing free and open accounting education materials and communities. She is the co-author of the open textbook Accounting and Accountability.

Dr Julian Pakay, Senior Lecturer, Biochemistry, La Trobe University. Julian is co-author of open textbook Threshold Concepts in Biochemistry and author of open textbook Foundations of Biomedical Science. Julian has documented and openly published his academic promotion application as an Exemplar: OER-powered academic promotion application.

Dr Susan Gasson, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, James Cook University. Susan and her team were awarded the 2024 Significant Impact OER Award for their work producing the open textbook Confident Supervisors: Creating Independent Researchers.

Steven Chang, Coordinator, Open Education & Scholarship, La Trobe University. Steven is the co-convenor of the Open Educational Practices ASCILITE special interest group and has co-authored a chapter called Aligning Open Education Programs with Academic Reward and Recognition in the Open Education Down UndOER: Australasian Case Studies.

Register via Humanitix

Open Educational Resources and Practices for Impactful Learning Design
2025-04-11 10:00 - 11:00 (Australia/Sydney) | University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia
In this session hosted by University of Technology Sydney, we will explore how learning designers can integrate Open Educational Resources and Practices (OER/OEP) in ways that enhance engagement, foster authentic learning and drive meaningful impact. Through lightning talks by learning design professionals in higher education, we’ll examine some real-world strategies for embedding OER and OEP and empower participants with practical tools for implementing them.
Register via Humantix
Our guests
Tannis Morgan, Vancouver Community College
Tannis Morgan, PhD, is Associate Vice President, Academic Innovation, at Vancouver Community College (VCC) in Vancouver, Canada. At VCC, Tannis plans and advances teaching, learning, and research innovation, and leads initiatives on online learning, alternate delivery, universal design, and open educational resources.
Over her career, Tannis has been responsible for developing and implementing e-learning strategy, and leading open education, educational technology and research projects. She is one of the founding members of the OpenETC, a community of educators, technologists, and designers sharing their expertise to foster and support open ed tech infrastructure for the British Columbia post-secondary sector. She also consults with organisations around online learning strategy and educational technology selection.
Verena Roberts, Thompson Rivers University and University of Calgary
Dr Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 and Higher Education educator, open learning designer and consultant who completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices with the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. She is currently an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rivers University (Open Learning) and an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the University of Calgary. She is a 2018-2019 OER Research fellow and 2018 Global Open Graduate Network (hashtag#GO-GN) member who lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Danielle Dubien, Instructional Designer
Danielle Dubien is a Canadian instructional designer whose experience includes designing online science courses for Franco-Ontarian secondary students, coordinating the development of training materials for professors across Africa aiming to offer open and distance learning, and designing corporate training materials. She is a member of GO-GN and has delivered professional development on Open Education and Trauma-Informed Pedagogy. She obtained her PhD in Education from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Mais Fatayer, University of Technology Sydney
Mais is the Learner Experience Design Manager at the University of Technology Sydney. She has been working in higher education since 2008 in a variety of settings as a lecturer, subject coordinator, researcher, and learning designer. She utilises her experience in enhancing the adoption of educational technology in teaching practices. She led many initiatives for educational professional development, participated in multidisciplinary research and designed technology-enhanced learning and teaching solutions. Her research interests focus on the use of technologies in learning and teaching, including Open Educational Practices (OEP), learning design, and design-based research.

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Keynote: Open and the Oligarchs: Planting Seeds in a World on Fire (Dr. Robin DeRosa)
2025-05-13 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | Regina, Canada, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Dr. Robin DeRosa has been working on open initiatives, including projects around OER, open pedagogy, and open access to research, for more than a decade. She has been interested not only in the practices that animate open, but also in the values that power an open vision for the future of education and knowledge-sharing. But recently, Robin has come to question the efficacy of the work in which she has been engaged. How can such well-conceived, thoughtful praxis around “open” be gathering steam at the same time as our public educational institutions, our libraries, and our publishing models creep closer toward privatization or economic ruin? How can our community’s investments in equity and access be thriving even as global political contexts bend toward neoliberalism, plutocracy, and fascism? This presentation will reimagine the “tragedy of the commons,” not as Garrett Hardin (mis)understood it in his seminal 1968 essay of that name, but in its current state. As LA burns and Trump ascends, we will pause and ask tough questions about where open education has gotten us.
Speaker bio: Dr. Robin DeRosa is the Director of Learning & Libraries at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire (USA). She has previously been an English professor, the chair of a customized major program for undergraduates, and the director of a faculty development center. Robin is an advocate for public higher education and has been working on OER and open pedagogy initiatives at institutions around the world for more than a decade. You can read more about Robin at her website, robinderosa.net
Date: Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Time:11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone:Saskatchewan Time

Keynote: Racing Towards a Wasted Future: Generative AI and the Resurgence of Nuclear Energy (Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia)
2025-05-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
As the potentials and promises of generative AI sweep into the field of Open Education, educators and advocates have a holistic responsibility to think deeply and expansively about the known and still emerging environmental impacts of these technologies. Demand for energy by the hungry server farms that create so-called artificial intelligence is bringing damaging and dangerous energy practices back from the grave, including the resurrection of previously shuttered coal and nuclear power plants. How can we as Open practitioners reconcile the long standing historical and contemporary violence of coal and nuclear power production with the desire to widely embrace and experiment with generative AI? This talk will review the most recent research on AI energy demands and the environmental impacts, as well as provide a brief history and contextualization of the current issues with nuclear waste, pollution, and accidents in North America, primarily in the United States and Canada. Attendees will be invited to reflect deeply on what we stand to lose and gain with the widespread adoption of generative AI in society, and hopefully leave inspired to mindfully use generative AI, with its current promise and future perils in mind.

Speaker bio:
Dr. Marco Seiferle-Valencia serves as Associate Professor and Open Education Librarian at the University of Idaho. His research interests span a wide range of topics, notably community archives, the history and current practices of BIPOC feminisms especially in libraries and information environments, and environmental justice. Marco is also a co-creator of the Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, which collects imperiled histories of Chicana civil rights activism.

Date: Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)

Keynote: Then. Now. The Future: Directions for Open Education in the Changing World of Higher Education (Dr. Glenda Cox)
2025-05-15 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
In this presentation, Dr. Glenda Cox will be looking back at the Cape Town open education declaration (2007) and the 10 directions suggested at the 10 year anniversary in 2017. Dr. Cox will include discussions of student protests calling for the decolonisation of the curriculum, first held in 2015 and now 10 years later where are we in higher education (HE) in South Africa. 2027 will be another 10 years – a 20 year anniversary – what have we achieved and what needs to be added? What will HE look like to 2035? Many of us will be happily retired but the students in the room will the academics of the future. How do we take steps towards the transformation of our current neoliberal, competitive HE? What steps do we take to include students in decolonising our curricula and where does Open fit in?

Speaker bio: Associate Professor Dr. Glenda Cox works in the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching (CILT: http://www.cilt.uct.ac.za/) at the University of Cape Town. She holds the UNESCO chair in Open Education and Social Justice and is a member of the UNITWIN network on Open Education. She is a Board member of the Open Education Global organization. She is on the editorial board of the International Journal of Students as Partners and she currently leads the Digital Open Textbooks for Development (DOT4D) initiative.

Date: Thursday, May 15, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)
via Zoom

Keynote: Designing for Justice with Open Educational Practices
2025-05-16 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Regina) | University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Whereas the adoption of open educational resources can widen equitable access by helping alleviate the financial burden experienced by students, the embrace of broader open educational practices carries the potential to advance additional dimensions of social and epistemic justice. This presentation will focus on practical ways in which educators may approach learning resources, activities, assessments, and policies in service of more inclusive, supportive, and just learning environments.

Speaker bio: Dr. Rajiv Jhangiani is the Vice Provost, Teaching and Learning at Brock University, where he holds faculty appointments in the Departments of Educational Studies and Psychology, directs the Inclusive Education Research Lab, and is affiliated with the Social Justice Research Institute. The architect of Canada’s first zero textbook cost degree programs and a global leader in open education, his scholarship is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada and focuses on open educational practices, student-centered pedagogies, and ethical approaches to educational technology.

Date: Friday, May 16, 2025
Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm
Time Zone: Saskatchewan Time (CST)
via Zoom

Inside the Wikipedia Assignment: Student Perspectives (WikiEdu Speaker Series)
2026-02-11 10:30 - 11:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Tyrol
What’s it like to work on a Wikipedia assignment? Hear directly from the students themselves!
In Wiki Education’s next Speaker Series webinar, student editors from across the country will join Wikipedia Expert Brianda Felix for a live conversation about their experiences improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework. Together they’ll explore the challenges and surprises they encountered, the skills they built, and how the process reshaped their thinking about research, collaboration, and the role of public information.
The event will include a public Q&A. We encourage you to bring questions for the panelists!

Barcamp Basics: How Unconferences Work
2026-02-21 09:30 - 12:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Hamburg, Germany, Hamburg, Germany
How do Barcamps work – and why are they such a powerful format for open education and peer learning?
In this compact, practice-oriented workshop, participants will learn the core principles of the Barcamp format: an open, participant-driven learning approach where the agenda is created by the community itself.
The workshop is especially designed for people who

are new to Barcamps or unconferences,
want to understand how Barcamps support Open Educational Practices (OEP),
plan to participate in, facilitate, or organize Barcamps in educational contexts.

Together we will explore:

What defines a Barcamp and how it differs from traditional conferences
The “golden rules” of Barcamps and participant-driven sessions
Typical phases of a Barcamp (arrival, session planning, sessions, documentation)
How Barcamps foster openness, participation, and peer-to-peer learning
Practical tips for participating in or hosting your first Barcamp

The workshop combines short inputs with discussion and exchange. No prior experience with Barcamps is required.
The format and content are based on many years of experience from the OERcamp community and openly licensed materials.

Customizing OER for your Students, Classroom, and Community
2026-02-25 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Boise) | Boise, United States, Boise, ID, United States
This Boise State University workshop supports faculty and staff to adapt openly licensed materials to align with specific requirements of their courses, students, and community. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
– Explore strategies for adapting and customizing openly licensed resources to suit the specific needs of your course and students.
– Analyze the potential impact of using or developing openly licensed resources for courses and students.
– Develop an openly licensed resource that addresses a gap in your current course and curriculum materials.
After registering for a remote workshop, you will receive a confirmation email of your registration that includes the workshop link. Please save this message. Also, you will have the option to add the event, which includes the Zoom link for the workshop, to your Google calendar.
Registration requires a Boise State University login.

The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks with Reingard Spannring
2026-03-02 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OER creators from the University of Innsbruck will share their personal experiences of developing and publishing Open Educational Resources.
They’ll talk about:

What it was like to work with OER
What they created and why
What they would do differently if they started again
And what advice they would give to anyone new to OER

Today’s talk will be led by Reingard Spannring from the Department of Education who will talk about her experiences with the Aqua MOOC.
Join us for a relaxed coffee break session: Take half an hour, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know the people behind OER at the University of Innsbruck!

L’éducation ouverte et libre en action
2026-03-02 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Vaud, Switzerland, Vaud, Switzerland
Objectifs : Partir d’un exemple de cours conçu dans une approche d’EOL pour identifier ce que l’adoption de ce type d’approche permet de mettre en place et de créer. Donner des éléments théoriques et des outils pratiques pour pouvoir s’y essayer.

Résumé : Enseigner un cours de méthodologie de recherche de niveau Master à l’aide d’un vrai projet de recherche en attribuant un rôle de chercheurs et chercheuses novices aux étudiant-es, comment ça marche ? En quoi est-on dans une approche d’EOL ? Quelles ressources éducatives libres (REL) utilise-t-on en amont et lesquelles produit-on en aval ? Pourquoi parle-t-on de pratiques éducatives ouvertes (PEO) dans ce cas précis ?

En partant de cet exemple concret de la pratique, le webinaire illustrera une approche d’EOL en action ainsi que ses composantes (REL et PEO). Pour les enseignant-es désireux de s’essayer à ces pratiques pédagogiques, des cadres et outils seront présentés (voir les ressources pour un avant-goût).

Diversifying the Curriculum with OER
2026-03-02 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/London) | Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Diversifying the Curriculum with OER is a one hour seminar for University of Edinburgh staff and postgraduate research students, to highlight existing practices and resources that diversify the curriculum and encourage student co-creation and learning.
We’ll also explore and discuss the variety of ways in which creating, using, and sharing open educational practices and resources can help to diversify educational materials.

Systematic Information Management
2026-03-02 20:00 - 21:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Hyderabad, India, Hyderabad, Telangana, India
The Centre for Online Education & Learning (COEL), Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU), Hyderabad, is pleased to announce a free international webinar titled “Systematic Information Management.” This insightful session will be delivered by:
Dr. Dominique Scheffel-Dunand, PhD – Directrice, Cycles supérieurs en Études francophones, Lead, Camerise Formation & Recherche (FSL Hub, York University), Professeure agrégée, Études françaises, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Canada.
Watch the Recording Here.
Register for free
Webinar context:
Open Education thrives on collaboration, shared knowledge, and sustainable practices. Yet in an era marked by rapid digital transformation, increasingly fragmented educational ecosystems, and widening learner diversity, Communities of Practice face a dual challenge: managing expanding volumes of open resources and translating them into actionable guidance that supports teachers’ evolving professional realities.

This session positions Systematic Information Management as a foundational strategy to operationalize pedagogical horizon scanning, helping educators identify, interpret, and apply emerging practices, research insights, and open resources to design relevant, inclusive learning experiences.

Our webinar will highlight how structured curation, shared taxonomies, and open repositories can transform scattered signals (OER, classroom innovations, research findings, policy shifts, and community knowledge) into reusable learning assets—toolkits, learning pathways, micro-credentials, and practice-oriented briefs—that inform, train, and upskill Communities of Practice. In contexts where professional learning days are often dedicated to policy messaging rather than sustained instructional adaptation, embedding systematic information practices within open ecosystems enables communities to co-create knowledge, strengthen OER sustainability, and build inclusive, cross-border professional learning networks that respond to diverse learners and real classroom needs.

An Introduction to Finding and Adapting Open Educational Resources
2026-03-02 09:00 - 10:30 (America/Chicago) | St. Louis, United States, St. Louis, MO, United States
Washington University Olin Library, Room 142
In this interactive, 90-minute workshop, learn what Open Educational Resources are, interpret Creative Commons licenses, and locate OER that is relevant to your courses. Through short activities and guided searches, you will identify at least one OER that can be adopted or adapted, explore practical strategies for customizing OER materials to meet your courses’ learning objectives, and connect with experts and peers who can help you implement OER in courses. Bring your device, and we will provide the refreshments.

Beyond Cost Savings: How Open Educational Resources Support Student Mental Health
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Toronto) | Oshawa, Canada, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
Description
Textbooks can be expensive, stressful, and sometimes out of reach, and that pressure often shows up in students’ well-being and learning.
In this session, we’ll talk about how Open Educational Resources (OER) can ease some of that stress by giving students free, day-one access to course materials and more flexible, inclusive ways to learn.
Together, faculty and students will explore research, real examples, and small design choices that can make learning feel more supportive, human, and equitable. You’ll leave with practical ideas you can use right away.
Learning Outcomes

Describe how Open Educational Resources (OER) can reduce student stress and support mental well-being by giving examples from research and practice.
Identify strategies for using OER to create more equitable, flexible, and inclusive learning experiences in their own courses or studies.
Reflect on the impact of course materials on mental health and propose at least one actionable change they could make to support student well-being through OER.

Who should participate?
Faculty, students, instructional designers, librarians, and educational developers who are interested in how open educational resources can reduce student stress and create more inclusive learning experiences.
Google Meet Information
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/ddu-wnki-ucm
Or dial: (CA) +1 587-797-8162‬ PIN: ‪854 299 637‬#
More phone numbers: https://tel.meet/ddu-wnki-ucm?pin=9011646883513

USask Lunch and Learn Panel: Stories From Those Engaged In the Creation of OER
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Regina) | Tyrol
Join us at the University of Saskatchewan for lunch and to hear from a panel of instructors and staff who are currently working or have created an open textbook.
Panellists representing the Department of Chemistry, Department of Curriculum Studies, the USask Library, and the new School of Rehabilitation Science will share their stories of why they started these projects and what their experiences have been like.

Keynote – Open Hearts: Empowering Educators with Open Resources and Practices
2026-03-02 10:00 - 11:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | San Diego, United States, San Diego, CA, United States
For Open Education Week San Diego Community College District brings you this keynote talk by Brenna Clarke Gray, Assistant Professor, Learning Design and Innovation and Coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University.
Session Description
I don’t know about you, but in this particular moment — politically, economically, culturally — I’ve never felt more sharply the distinction between my values as an educator and the realities of the world outside my classroom. To celebrate Open Education Week, then, let’s all take a moment to find hope in the possibilities and promises of open education. In this session, through a little bit of theoretical framing and a lot of practical examples, we’ll discuss how open resources and open practices can empower us as educators to build a more equitable, accessible, and engaging learning experience for our students and for those far beyond our classroom walls. Join me as we open our hearts and share the possibilities of open education in a moment when we all really need to remember how far our good work can spread.
Speaker Details
Brenna Clarke Gray is an open educator and critical technologist powered by righteous indignation and lattes and based at Thompson Rivers University in Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc, where she co-founded the TRU Open Press. Her work explores the possibilities of a care-centred approach to the ethical and equitable use of educational technologies. Her most recent work includes the peer-reviewed scholarly teaching and learning podcast Community of Praxis and the forthcoming Routledge Introduction to Canadian Comics. She holds a PhD from the University of New Brunswick, where she was a Canada Graduate Scholar. Outside of the university’s walls, she is an avid reader, compulsive baker, and tired mum. If she was a creature in the Jim Henson cinematic universe, she would be Cotterpin Doozer.

Intro to the LibreTexts LibreVerse
2026-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Davis, United States, Davis, CA, United States
If you’ve heard of LibreTexts but aren’t quite sure where to start, this one’s for you. Join a member of our team for a guided tour of the “LibreVerse,” our full ecosystem of free, open tools we’ve built to support educators and students at every stage of their learning journey.
We’ll walk you through our repository of over a million pages of OER content; our Remixer that lets you take any of it and make it your own; Conductor and Workbench for keeping your projects and teams on track; and ADAPT, our open homework and assessment platform; and more.

OER Grant Lightning Talks & Grant Information Session
2026-03-02 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Hamilton, Canada, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
This event features McMaster faculty and instructors who are incorporating open education into their teaching.
Hear from some of the 2025-2026 OER Grantees as they update us on their awarded projects. Learn about the open resources being created for McMaster courses and hear about experiences in creating open and accessible content. Gather ideas for possible OER projects of your own. Find out more about the McMaster OER Grant which will be offered again in Spring 2026.

Science Education for a Just and Sustainable World
2026-03-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Vancouver) | Vancouver, Canada, Vancouver, BC, Canada
March 2-6, 2026 marks Open Education Week and UN SDG Action and Awareness Week. Join BCcampus, the BC Open Education Librarians, University Canada West, and Langara College for a celebration of both of these events with keynote speaker Dr. Karen Cangialosi.

As global social and environmental problems grow ever more intractable, we need transformative pedagogies that support our students to become critical, creative social agents capable of building a more sustainable and just world.
Open Pedagogy has the potential to shift our traditional modes of teaching and learning towards practices that nurture students to be creators of knowledge focused on the global good. These hopes could be realized if we are responsive to the dual upheavals caused by AI and the attacks on higher education. We can educate our STEM students to become scientists, and all of our students, to become citizens that are cognizant of an uncertain and challenging future, and work from non-traditional frameworks–those that resist competitive, hierarchical, exploitative models of science.
Key to achieving this vision is teaching undergraduates how to center Open Science as the default for how science is practiced by deeply integrating Open Pedagogical practices that support students to address inherent inequities, problems with data-sharing, and other barriers to the adoption of Open Science. To that end, the OCTOPUS project was developed to support higher education faculty and staff to create openly licensed materials that may eventually constitute a comprehensive undergraduate Open Science-Open Pedagogy program.

Speaker bio
Dr. Karen Cangialosi is a passionate change agent, dedicated educator, and student advocate with national recognition in open education, STEM ed, and digital pedagogy. As a Professor of Biology at Keene State College (now emeritus), she brought open education into the biology curriculum and led campus-wide initiatives to make science education more affordable and inclusive. She now serves as Director of Open Education & Open Science at the RIOS Institute which promotes racial justice and openness in STEM education. Her work centers on transforming higher ed systems to better serve students, especially marginalized students. Her Educause article, An AI-Driven Optimism for Transforming Higher Education (It’s Not What You Think) considers the juxtaposition of AI in education. She continues to advocate for integrating Open Science and Open Education to reimagine how we teach, learn, and collaborate in STEM, always with a focus on transparency, justice, and meaningful change. To that end, she is project director for the OCTOPUS project (Open Collaboration for Transformative Open Pedagogy to support Undergraduate Open Science Education) a collaborative effort between the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium and the RIOS Institute.

Manos a la Wiki: construyendo el conocimiento abierto en la era de la IA
2026-03-02 15:00 - 2026-03-03 19:30 (America/Monterrey) | Monterrey, Mexico, Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
Para celebrar la Semana de la Educación Abierta, la Facultad de Psicología, con el apoyo del Club Rotary Youth Exchange Distrito 4130 y Mensa México, invita a participar en la Semana de la Educación Abierta: Manos a la Wiki: construyendo el conocimiento en la era de la IA, que se llevará a cabo los días 2 y 3 de marzo de 2026.
Exploraremos las realidades y los retos que enfrentan las teorías del aprendizaje con el desafío impuesto de la tecnología, particularmente la inteligencia artificial y su auge mundial actual. Desde el constructivismo hasta el conectivismo, buscaremos encontrar las preguntas correctas para que en sociedad sea posible encontrar sus respuestas. Este evento culiminará en un Editatón buscando asegurar que la información disponible para la ciudadanía sea veraz, científica y de calidad.
Más información: https://psicologiauanl.wordpress.com/2026/02/22/semana-internacional-de-la-educacion-aberita-2026/
Participa e involúcrate. ¡Te esperamos!

Atelier Sketchnote | Découverte de l’Éducation ouverte avec l’UC Louvain
2026-03-03 09:30 - 11:00 (Europe/Paris) | Nantes, France, Nantes, France
Animé par le Louvain Learning Lab de l’UC Louvain, cet atelier interactif basé sur des sketchnotes vous permettra de reconnaître et d’expliquer les valeurs et fondements de l’Education ouverte et des REL ainsi que leurs bénéfices pour tous les acteurs et actrices du monde éducatif. Intéressé·e par le partage de ressources éducatives et la collaboration entre enseignant·es et/ou étudiant·es du monde entier, cet évènement est fait pour vous !

The JOERney@UIBK: Experience Talks with Veronica Greco
2026-03-03 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Innsbruck, Austria, Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
OER creators from the University of Innsbruck will share their personal experiences of developing and publishing Open Educational Resources.
They’ll talk about:

What it was like to work with OER
What they created and why
What they would do differently if they started again
And what advice they would give to anyone new to OER

Today’s talk will be led by Veronica Greco from the Department of Italian Law who will talk about her experiences with the OER Checkliste für die Anwendung der Anspruchsmethode im italienischen Zivilrecht.
Join us for a relaxed coffee break session: Take half an hour, grab a cup of coffee, and get to know the people behind OER at the University of Innsbruck!

AfLIA Open Education Week Virtual Summit
2026-03-03 09:00 - 13:00 UTC | Accra, Ghana, Accra, Ghana
The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions (AfLIA), in collaboration with OER Africa, is pleased to announce the 2026 AfLIA Open Education Week Virtual Summit, scheduled for 3–4 March 2026. The virtual summit will convene librarians, educators, researchers, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore how Open Education can expand access, improve equity, and transform learning outcomes across Africa.
Theme: Open Education, Open Possibilities
Open Education is reshaping the global learning landscape by expanding access to open educational resources and practices. It creates new pathways for inclusive, quality, and equitable education. This is particularly important for Africa, which has the world’s youngest population, with over 60 percent under the age of 25 and a median age of 19. Many young people and adult learners still face significant barriers to education due to inadequate resources and persistent equity gaps. Open Education presents an opportunity to address these challenges and to support Africa’s transformation into a global knowledge and innovation powerhouse.
AfLIA strongly believes that African libraries have critical roles to play in bridging digital and resource gaps. Library professionals possess expertise in technology, copyright, and licensing, positioning them as key partners in advancing Open Education. The 2026 virtual summit seeks to bring together stakeholders to share research, case studies, emerging models, and visionary ideas that demonstrate how Open Education can enable transformative, inclusive, and equitable education across the continent.
